Serbia informed of Croatia and Slovenia limits

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):
2:20 p.m.
Serbia’s interior minister says the country has been formally informed that Croatia and Slovenia will take no more than 500 migrants per day – far below the daily number of people seeking entry into the European Union.
Nebojsa Stefanovic said Friday that an official note from Croatia arrived the day before, and that Croatia had previously been informed of a change by Slovenia.
The change could well lead to further pressures in Greece and elsewhere along the main Balkan route that the migrants have been taking. Thousands are already stuck in Greece, which is seeing about 2,000 migrants arriving daily from Turkey.
Stefanovic says there are currently around 2,000 people in Serbia waiting to move on. An average of 10,000 people entered the EU each day at the peak of the influx last year.
12:50 p.m.
French state representatives are going tent-to-tent trying to convince residents in a sprawling migrant camp in the port city of Calais to leave, a day after a court ruled that a mass eviction could go ahead.
Groups of pro-migrant activists are also making the rounds of tents in the camp – called the “jungle” – Friday, telling residents they could stay.
Thursday’s complex ruling – which banned any immediate destruction of common spaces that have sprung up such as houses of worship, a school or a women’s center – has seeded confusion.
Authorities wanted a ruling allowing them to raze the camp, where thousands of migrants from the world’s trouble spots have gathered to try to sneak across the English Channel to Britain via ferry or a Eurotunnel rail service.
12:25 p.m.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says that Albania will not become the new route for migrants headed for western Europe “because we have neither the conditions nor the strength nor the enthusiasm to save the world while others close their borders.”
Macedonia has all but closed its border with Greece, blocking the path for migrants who are continuing to arrive at the rate of thousands daily, leading some to wonder whether a route through Albania would be viable.
Speaking on a talk show late Thursday Rama contradicted a statement made earlier by the integration minister in which she said Albania would not build a wall to prevent refugees and other migrants from entering.
Rama said Albania could not hold “the entire burden. … I have said that in case of a distribution of the burden we shall take our part.”
He added that Albania has for six months been in negotiation with the Italian government about what to do if the migrants came to his country, “because normally they would not come to stay in Albania but would target Italy” – across the Adriatic Sea.
12:20 p.m.
Greece’s government has ordered authorities on islands facing the coast of Turkey to reduce the number of migrants allowed to travel by ferry to the mainland so that more temporary shelters can be set up to cope with the crisis triggered by border restrictions in countries further north.
The Merchant Marine Ministry said ferry companies and regional authorities had been given the instructions Friday, as the number of migrants and refugees stranded in Greece continues to rise with thousands sleeping rough in parks and along the country’s highways as existing shelters are filled to capacity.
The ministry said chartered ferries would be used on Lesbos and other islands to provide temporary shelter through Sunday.
About 2,000 people are arriving daily from Turkey using dinghies and small boats.